Rehabilitating farmland

The first plants to develop here are annuals, gradually replaced by biennials, then perennials to form a herbaceous carpet which, depending on the richness of the soil, will be higher or lower. Grasslands can only be maintained by the action of wild or domestic herbivores, or by human action through repeated mowing.

Conservation agriculture was officially defined by  the FAO in 2001, as  based on three main  principles:

• Maximum soil coverage (residues, crops or sown cover crops).
• No tillage (only disturbance of the seed line is tolerated).
• Diversification of crop species (long rotations and associated crops).

ECT’s environmental and social developments cost neither the community nor the landowner anything. Developing territories and their attractiveness at no cost to the community is possible by applying the principles of a circular economy to excavated soil from construction sites.

ECT  ‘s business is to manage excavated soil from the construction industry and transform derelict and abandoned sites  . The reuse of inert soil on these derelict sites finances their transformation.  

• The construction and public works sector pays ECT for the management (environmental engineering, characterization, traceability, reception) of its surplus excavated soil.
• On the site to be transformed, the reuse and recovery ofexcavated soil finances 100% of the rehabilitation project and  carried out in consultation with the community.
• For €1, ECT returns the finished layout to the local authority, which then benefits from a new layout, free of charge, for €0.